Spoon-hook.



J. E. BETT$ & C. EWBNS.

SPOON HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1912.

1,050,759. Patented Jan.14,1913

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JESY E. IBETTS AND CHARLES EWENS, 0F KETCHIKAN, ALASKA; SAID BETTS ASSIGNOB T0 6. E. IIIIIIIN'DIG, OF KETOEIKAN, ALASKA.

sPoon-noox.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 14, 1913.

- Application fled June 1,1912. Serial No. 101,014.

-ments in Spoon-Hooks, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to fishing appliances and has special reference to an 1mproved form of spoon.

ihe principal object of the invention is to provide an improved form of s on wherein a hook will lie in the hollow 0 the spoon but disengage therefrom when a fish strikes it.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, this invention consists in general of certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated. in the accompanying drawings, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and :Figure 1 is a face view of the interior of the spoon. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal median section therethrough. Fig 3 is a detail section on the line 3-3, of ig. 1.

The spoon proper comprises an elongated c-ymbiform body 10 having at one end an opening 11 wherethrough passes a ring 12 to which is attached a swivel 13- of the ordinary type used in connection with devices of this description. To this swivel is mtended to. be attached the fishing line. Secured also to the ring 12 is a second similar swivel 14 the 0 posite end of which is attached to the hoo 15. This book 15 has an eye for attachment to the swivel.

Solder-ed or brazed to the body of the spoon on the hollow side is a holdi derice for the fish book which consists preferably of a single length of wire bent centrally in a loop 17 adapted to pass throu h the eye 16. This loop projects substantia y at right angles to the spoon and the wire is continued from the loop in portions 18 which lie along the spoon and diverge slightly as can clearly be seen in Fig. 1. The ends-of the wire are bent upwardly as at 19 and incline toward each other. These ends are so arranged that their terminal portions are slightly closer together than the diameter of the steel from which the hook is made so that a small degree of force is necessary to place the hook with its shank between the two portions 19 or to release it therefrom. By thismeans the hook is held with its shank in the hollow of the spoon until such time as the fish strikes. Thereupon the hook pulls loose from the spoon and acts as in the ordinary manner.

There has thus been provided a simple and efiicient device of the kind described, and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that many minor chan 8 may be made in the form and constructlon of the invention without departing from the material principles thereof and it is therefore not wished to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is wished to include all such as propcrly come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. The combination with a spoon having a cymbiform elongated body provided with an opening at one.end of a link passin through said opening, a line attaching swive connected to said link. a second swivel connected to the link, a hook attached to the, second swivel, and means in the hollow of the spoon to releasably engage the book.

2. The combination with a spoon having a cymbiform elongated body provided with an opening at one end of a link passing through said opening, a line attachingswivel connected to said link, a second-swivel connected to the link,a hook attached to the second swivel, said hook being provided with a shank and eye, a wire bent intermediate its'ends to form a loop adapted to 1 In testimony whereof we hereunto affix pass through said eye, said wire having p0r 4 our signatures in presence of two witnesses. 10 tions adjacent the loop substantially at right i Y E BETTS angles and secured in the hollow of the I CHARLES EWE'NS 5 spoon, and converging terminal portions v formed on said Wire and extending outward Witnesses: from the hollow of the spoon to form shank Axron KALEEL, engaging means. CHAS. H. Cosoaovs. 

